Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT for Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 212350 TORLBB TXC191-220015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 647 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES SOUTH OF BRICE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF MEMPHIS...MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH...THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... BRICE...LAKEVIEW AND MEMPHIS IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 4 2 6 0. LAT...LON 3474 10095 3452 10094 3463 10043 3475 10048
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 46 min |
| Apr 21, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 48 min |
| Apr 21, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 60 min |
| Apr 21, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 60 min |
| Apr 21, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 25 min |
| Apr 21, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 48 min |
| Apr 21, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 43 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.